Typically survey data have responses with gaps, outliers and ties, and the distributions of the responses might be skewed. Usually, in small area estimation, predictive inference is done using a two-stage Bayesian model with normality at both levels (responses and area means).This is the...

Strategic alignment between the business model and the assessment of firm performance in the context of particular operational and competitive environments has been increasingly discussed in the literature on measurement of economic performance. In this paper, the relevance of non-financial...